Secondary School Curriculum 2012 - Central Board of Secondary ...

11. PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION
RATIONALE
Health and Physical education is concerned with total health of the learner and the community.
Besides physical health, it includes mental and emotional health of the learners. WHO defines health
as a state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
The aim of Health and Physical Education is to enable the student to attain such a state of health that,
it becomes an education for the total human being.
In this respect, it is a truism to say that the practice of healthy living will serve as the foundation
for physical education. It is envisaged that any effort to promote aesthetic values at the school level
will include a natural esteem for physical well-being. The mastery of the body, its powers and qualities,
requires knowledge, methodical training and exercise. The skills and capacities developed, the muscles
and nerves trained, the senses cultivated and hygienic and proper dietary habits inculcated. Therefore,
provision has to be made much more systematically than before, in the school curriculum for Health
and Physical Education. At the Secondary level acquisition of the habits of healthy living and participation
in games and sports and athletics for the neuro muscular coordination and physical fitness are the
aims which should be taken care of while developing any syllabus of health and physical education.
The objectives of Physical and Health Education are :
• to bring the overall awareness of values and to inculcate among students the desired habits
and attitudes towards health and to raise their health status;
• to make the pupils physically, mentally and emotionally fit and to develop their personal and
social qualites that will help them to be good human beings;
• to develop a scientific point of view regarding health and physical education;
• to identify personal, family and community health problems and acquire relevant scientific
knowledge and information to prevent and control these problems to stay healthy;
• to take action individually and collectively to protect and promote (i) their own health (ii) health
of their family members: and (iii) health of those around them in the community, seeking help
when required from available community resources;
• to promote improved preventive and promotive self-care behaviour in the families and in the
community;
• to develop awareness of HIV, AIDS and drug abuse in the community;
• to develop an awareness regarding the importance of physical fitness and organic efficiency in
individual and social life;
• to develop awareness regarding transfer of fundamental processes to physical activities of
one's choice;
• to develop interest in exercise, sports and games for self-satisfaction and making it a part of
life;
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